How to add Roots theme via composer.json? I followed instructions on http://roots.io/wordpress-plugins-with-composer/
I put this under repositories
, but getting Nothing to install or update
on composer update
command:
{
"type": "package",
"package": {
"name": "roots/roots",
"version": "master",
"type": "wordpress-theme",
"dist": {
"type": "zip",
"url": "https://github.com/roots/roots/archive/master.zip"
}
},
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.2",
"composer/installers": "v1.0.6"
}
}
Always come up with solution upon asking a question lol
This post helped: http://matgargano.com/modern-wordpress-development-composer/
My mistakes are well obvious…
You’ve got to include the package in the require
section:
{
"type": "package",
"package": {
"name": "roots/roots",
"version": "master",
"type": "wordpress-theme",
"dist": {
"type": "zip",
"url": "https://github.com/roots/roots/archive/master.zip"
}
},
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.2",
"composer/installers": "v1.0.6",
"roots/roots": "master"
}
}
Edited to add: just note it’s not the require for the package but the require at the end for the project as a whole.
My working template is:
...
{
"type": "package",
"package": {
"name": "name_goes_here",
"version": "dev-master",
"type": "wordpress-theme",
"dist": {
"type": "zip",
"url": "https://github.com/roots/roots/archive/master.zip"
}
},
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.2",
"fancyguy/webroot-installer": "1.*"
}
}
],
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.2",
"wordpress": "3.8.1",
"fancyguy/webroot-installer": "1.1.0",
"composer/installers": "v1.0.6",
"wp-cli/wp-cli": "v0.13.0",
"vlucas/phpdotenv": "~1.0.5",
"same_name_goes_here": "dev-master"
},...
Also it means you can put any theme, I just wanted to start with Roots. Just change dist:url
to place where you hold your own theme (based on roots for example)
Including "type": "wordpress-theme"
should install it into the correct directory for you.
rezzo
February 6, 2014, 10:30am
6
I’ve just started using both Roots and Composer so I’m rather new to this. With that being said I have been able to get everything to work with the exception of being able to install Roots into my theme folder. Would appreciate any help.
{
"repositories": [
{
"type": "package",
"package": [
{
"type": "webroot",
"name": "wordpress/wordpress",
"version": "3.8.1",
"dist": {
"url": "https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/archive/3.8.1.zip",
"type": "zip"
},
"require": {
"fancyguy/webroot-installer": "1.0.0"
}
},
{
"type": "wordpress-theme",
"name": "roots/roots-sass",
"version": "6.5.1",
"dist": {
"url": "https://github.com/roots/roots-sass/archive/6.5.1.zip",
"type": "zip"
},
"require": {
"fancyguy/webroot-installer": "1.0.0"
}
}
]
}
],
"require": {
"wordpress/wordpress": "3.8.1",
"roots/roots-sass": "6.5.1"
},
"extra": {
"webroot-dir": "wp",
"webroot-package": "wordpress/wordpress",
"installer-paths": {
"app/themes/{$name}/": ["wordpress-theme"]
}
}
}
Foxaii
February 6, 2014, 12:32pm
7
Unless you’re using Roots as a parent theme, you shouldn’t really be doing this. But I’ve given an example at the gist below anyway:
composer.json
{
"name": "roots/bedrock",
"type": "project",
"license": "MIT",
"description": "A modern WordPress stack",
"homepage": "http://roots.io/wordpress-stack/",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Scott Walkinshaw",
"email": "scott.walkinshaw@gmail.com",
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Don’t forget to add Roots (or any theme you’re adding) to the requires (see line 75).
Your problem is leaving out type:wordpress-theme
:
"app/themes/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-theme"]
This might seem like a silly question but what then would be the ideal way of installing Roots in a Bedrock based project? I just git cloned roots then I ended up with a submodule in my main project.
cfx
October 1, 2014, 10:40pm
10
You just need to delete the .git/
directory from the theme directory.
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